Production of a verification report for Copernicus Local Component Products

This feature was implemented to allow users involved in the verification of local component products from Copernicus (e.g., Urban Atlas, Natura 2000 sites, etc.) to produce a verification report that matches the one specified in the Guidelines for Verification of Local Component Products. This includes all the information required plus placeholders for missing pieces (e.g., screenshots that were bookmarked using the feature outline in 3.7).

The option to create these reports will only be enabled when you have uploaded a vector polygon data set (or used the augmentation feature outlined in section 3.3 to upload a polygon sample) and enabled the Geometry validation option in the creation of a validation session (Figure 29).

Figure 29: The Geometric validation option must be enabled

When a report is then generated, the option to download the Verification Report Template will appear as shown in Figure 30.

Figure 30: Download of the Verification Report Template

The report consists of three main components:

1. A sheet containing the Metadata. Most of the information on this sheet must be filled in by you.

2. A sheet containing the Overall characterization of the dataset. Most of the information is populated by LACO-Wiki including the summary statistics, but you will need to add a map of the data set.

3. Multiple sheets containing the Characterization of the dataset by LU/LC class, where there is one sheet per class. Most of the information is populated automatically by LACO-Wiki but you will need to add screenshots from the bookmarked validations.

The Excel report can also be converted to a Word document if you prefer this format.